Legend has it why Aussies call the English Poms, short for pomegranate, because they come over and get burnt to shit, end up bright red.
I love Aussies’ sense of humour!
Skin cancer is no joke, but I don’t wear much sunscreen because I don’t need to. I need all the vitamin D I can get. I wish I would’ve protected myself more earlier in life, though.
And yet mostly living in Australia, (was only in the grey UK from 2.5 years in our 20's), I'm still vitamin D deficient, because the majority of my life I've been inside on computers, presumably like a large percentage of Hacker News readers.
Ironically, our suncream QA is crap and all of the supposedly good sunscreens with high SPF factors failed indepdent testing - even including the one recommended by the Cancer Council.
Burnt to a crisp, I emails them and never heard back, I can't image I was the only person to notice.
Which is why Im probably vitD deficient too, the sun is toobharde to spend any amount of time outside unprotected here.
It's now slip, slop, slap, seek, slide - shade and sunglasses!
I'm also in the same boat but more out of laziness and hating being greasy.
Definitely wish I'd been more sun smart when younger though.
Many years ago I read that it's POME: Prisoner of Mother England, now shortened to just "pom."